Tag Archives: Christmas

While many Americans celebrate with Christmas music and gifts, the holiday season means different things to people all over the world Christmas is the main American holiday and is celebrated each year by hundreds of millions of people across the world. However, not everyone celebrates this holiday as adamantly as …

To finish off our Minnehaha Archive 12 days of Christmas series, featured below is a clip from the 1928 edition of The Quiver. All text with no images, this clip is the oldest one in our series and includes Christmas short stories and discussion of the purchase of Christmas seals. Merry Christmas …

Today is the 10th day of our 12 days of Christmas countdown. The year is 1947, the year of the end of WWII, and below is a clip from the Christmas edition of The Quiver that year. Highlighting a special candlelight Christmas service, this clip also features a photo of the newspaper’s …

Day 9 of the Minnehaha Archive 12 days of Christmas series highlights the 1952 Christmas edition of The Quiver. The section of the paper below describes how students prepare for Christmas and get into the holiday spirit, as well as discussing the Christmastime mistletoe tradition.

Happy New Year! These clips from the Christmas 1955 edition of The Quiver highlight people and things of the month, Christmas traditions, New Year’s Resolutions, short stories and what students are hoping for for Christmas.

Day six of our 12 days of Christmas series features a snippet from a 1979 edition of The Quiver. Featuring a letter to Santa and Christmas poetry, this page also includes a nativity scene graphic as well as a table of contents for what else is included in the issue.

After four days of clippings from old Minnehaha Talon newspapers, this clip comes from the 1985 edition of The Quiver, MA’s student newspaper before The Talon. Written by Lara Hammel and Gerard Hammink, this brief talks about how different language classes and clubs celebrated Christmas. The article talks about Swedish …

Day four of the Minnehaha Archive 12 days of Christmas series is a clipping from the 1991 Christmas edition of the Talon. Written by staff writer Mark Ireland with a hand drawn cartoon, the clip below discusses the rush to finish Christmas shopping and the business of the holiday season.